Privacy
Last updated 9 November 2026.
What the app collects
Nothing. Openwood has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising identifiers and no crash reporting that leaves your device.
What stays on your phone
- Bookmarks and the last loaded page, in app storage.
- Your Hacker News username and password, in the iOS Keychain, only if you choose to log in.
What leaves your phone
- Reading. Requests go to
api.openwood.org, operated by us, which fetches public Hacker News data and returns it with a picture when one exists. We keep request counts and errors, not who asked for what. - Voting and commenting. These go directly from your phone to
news.ycombinator.comusing your own session. Your password is sent only to Hacker News, never to us. - Article pictures. Stored on
images.openwood.org, which serves the thumbnail only. The page you are reading is not contacted by us.
Third parties
Hacker News (Y Combinator) receives the requests you make to it. Article pictures are fetched by our server from the publisher's own metadata. No other third party receives data from the app.
Deleting your data
Remove the app and its storage goes with it. We hold no account to delete.